Learned something new today

HCooke

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Needed to brush cut my 1 acre prairie today. Mower is alway kept on my 601 which is always sheaded. It has be getting harder to start lately but once started ran real well. Today it was very slow to catch to the point where I got off the tractor to check the spark. Spark looked good (and felt strong too) and about the time I was feeling it it decided to fire. Warmed it up and backed out of the shed. Lots of condensation smoke coming out of the vertical exhaust. Never done that before. I decided to let it blow that off before beginning to mow. After 30 seconds or so there was a metallic ping out out popped an acorn. What the heck? Soon another followed and then it was just like a popcorn machine. Must have spit out about 50 or so acorns. After it finished upchucking the nuts, it ran smooth and strong. DANG RODENTS! There is a tin can sitting over the exhaust now.
 
You have to wonder why they select a nasty, smelly, oily, gassy place? Same with wasp....why do they like the inside of my Bar-B-Q grill so much??!!
 
I had them fill up my clutch housing on the Oliver with acorns. I started it up and they came flying out!
 
The check engine light came on in my wife's Mini Cooper last week. I checked the codes and it was showing problems with the mass air flow sensor. Started checking it out and found the air intake plugged with dog food. Evidently the dog had been sharing his food with a mouse or two.
 
I have a D-17 that when I pulled it out of a fence row and tried to get it to run I found what seemed to be a mouse nest in 3 of the 4 cylinders. Got them cleaned out and it has ran just fine ever since. By the way my 841 had gotten hard to start but once I installed new NGK3112 plugs it fires right up. It had auto lite 437s in it but never again
 
Yep, Deer Mice take up residence in the wife's Miata air cleaner box when we put it away for the winter. Seems like I'm chasing one rodent or another.
 

Don't you have a flapper on the pipe?

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Rodents are a mess alright. I placed containers of the little green pellet poison in my barn. Several months later, I started up the '51 Chevy Styleline; it ran rough so I gave it the gas and out popped a mouse nest and a load of green pellets. The idle smoothed right out. There must have been some more farther up the tail pipe because as it got hot, a really obnoxious odor filled the air. I let the car run and got out of there for a few minutes until the air cleared.
 
Soak some rags or cotton balls with mint oil or mint leaves. Place them around none mouse spots under hoods or pipes and the mice will stay clear. Mint is a natural deterrent for mice. Planting mint around you house will keep them from coming in also. I hope this helps someone.
 
Started my lawnmower this spring to cut grass and man did it start to stink after a couple of weeks. Traced the smell to the engine and when i removed the cowling....there were decomposing mice wedged against the flywheel cooling fins. Centrifical force at work. What an awful way to die!
 

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